Advertising novelty



Oct. 13, 1925- D. G. MUELLER ADVERTISING NOVELTY Filed April 17, 925- QALiN-DA Patented Oct. 13, 1925.

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DANIEL G. MUELLER, F CIIIGJAGO, ILLINGIS, ,ASSIG-NOR Cit) MUELLER BROTHERS ART AND MANUFACTURING V ILLINOIS.

ADVERTISING NOVELTY.

Application filed April 17, 1925. Serial No. easier-f" To all whom. a may concern: Be it known that I. DANIEL G. hflonnnnn, citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, Cook County, and State of lllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Novelties, of which the following is declared to be a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to advertising; novcities, and its principal object is to provide an attractive and useful article of novel con struction and arrangement. Another object is to provide an advertising novelty with a thermometer, and with means for protecting the thermometer against breakage during the packing, storage, transportation and use of the device. The thermometer used in this device is frail and easily broken and one ob ject is to encase the bulb of the thermometer within a chamber having a transparent front through which the thermometer is visible. Other objects and advantages will occur in the course of the following specification, and with all of said objects and advantages in 25 view, this invention consists in the several novel features herein fully described and claimed.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation, partly broken out, of an advertising novelty embodying a simple form of the present invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken 35 on the line 33 of Fig. 1 and Fig. 4 is a detail, enlarged, fragmental section illustrating certain features in connection with the construction of parts thereof.

Referring to said drawing, which illustrates one embodiment of the invention, the reference character 5 designates a flat plaque or slab made of Wood, cardboard or the like, and having any desired ornamental configuration. A hole 6 is provided at its upper edge whereby the device may be suspended from the nail or hook.

On the front face 7 of the plaque is secured a cardboard or other thin sheet of material 8 on which may be printed, painted, engraved or otherwise produced, advertising matter, either alone or in connection with a picture or other illustration, and over said sheet 8 is secured a transparent plate 9 such as glass. lireiterably, the sheet 8 and transparent plate 9 are of the same size and shape, whereby the edges of one may coincide with those of the other.

The plaque 5 and sheet 8 are formed with registering openings 10, 11,. preferably of elongated, upright form located adjacent one side edge of the plaque, whereby the major portion of the sheet 8 may be utilized for the picture and advertising matter. The transparent plate 9 covers the openings in the plaque and sheet, but it leaves the same visible from the front of the device.

Secured to the back of the plaque at the openingll, ls a small thermometer 12, the tube 18 of which is contained in the opening 10. The tube 13 is secured to a cardboard or other sheet of thin material 14: by bent up metal strips 15 that pass around the tube, extend through holes in the cardboard sheet 14 and are bent back behind said eardboard. The usual graduation marks, indicating degrees of heat, are printed on the front of the cardboard sheet 14: adjacent the tube. The thermometer is secured to the plaque by small brads or tacks.

The cardboard sheet 8 and transparent plate 9 are preferably secured in place as follows: Transparent glue or other transparent adhesive material 18 (see Fig. 4) is used for securing the cardboard. 8 to the transparent plate 9 and other glue or other adhesive material 19 is used for securing the secured'together cardboard sheet and transparent plate to the plaque.

It is perfectly apparent that the open space formed by the opening in the plaque and covered by the transparent plate may be used to contain a barometer or other and different article. I desire, therefore, not to limit myself to the use of the device for containing any particular article.

The entire part thus far described in detail may comprise a support for a calendar 16, which may be attached to the plaque by rings 17, which pass through holes in the adjacent edge portions of the plaque and calendar.

From the above description, it will be seen COMPANY, or cnrcaeo, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION or that a handsome, attractive and useful de vice is provided that serves well as an advertising medium. The article is usually placed in a flat covered box for shipment or storage and because of its peculiar construction and arrangement, no other packing is required to safeguard the thermometer because the bulbthereof is contained in the chamber formed by the edges of the openings in the plaque and sheet, and the adjacent faces of the transparent plate and cardboard member of the thermometer. The bulb is consequently protected against injury from contact with external objects and a great saving from the danger of breakage is therefore effected.

More or less variation of" the exact details of construction is possible without departing from the spirit of this invention; I desire, therefore, not to limit myself to the exact form of the construction shown and described, but intend, in the following claim,

to point out all of the invention disclosed herein.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

An advertising novelty, comprising a plaque having an elongated, upright opening formed therein, a sheet of material sccured to said plaque and having an elongated upright opening formed therein and coinciding with the opening in the plaque said sheet having space for receiving printed matter, a transparent plate covering the front of said sheet and opening and a thermometer having a cardboard bulb supporting member secured to the back of said plaque and covering the back of said opening and having its bulb contained. in the chamber between said transparent plate and cardboard back and defined by the edges of said openings.

DANIEL G. MUELLER. 

